Daisy Miller (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1878
- Type of Work: Novella
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Class consciousness, Diseases, Switzerland or Swiss people, Rome
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Switzerland
Daisy Miller was James's first commercial success; it made him immediately famous as the chronicler of “the international theme” and remains, after The Turn of the Screw (1898), probably his most widely known work. A characteristic example of James's early fiction, which is indebted to the allegorical tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novella establishes a recurrent theme that would be reworked with increasing complexity as James's career developed.
Frederick Winterbourne, an expatriate American resident for a number of years in Geneva, is on an excursion...
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